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571.
by nir 17y ago
obviously: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
572.
The botnet ecosystem(viruslist.com)
14 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
573.
by nir 17y ago
sometimes.
574.
by nir 17y ago
Javascript example in the article: function triangle(a,b){ if(a > 0 && b > 0 ){ function sqroot(x){ if( x > 0 ){ return Math.pow(x,.5); } else { return 0;
575.
by nir 17y ago
> "I think being in IT and in my 50's is a tremendous advantage." I believe you, but can't help but wonder if you find that potential employers see it this way as well? Some companies (Facebook comes to mind..) are reluctant to even hi
576.
A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames(popsci.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
577.
by nir 17y ago
Rasmus Lerdorf created the most popular language for building web apps. Websites that changed the world were built with this language, and most newcomers seem to choose it as well. It managed to get a substantial share of a market that comp
578.
by nir 17y ago
The developers of PHP created the most popular language on the web. They built a language that is not only preferred by people with no programming background, but also powers some of the most influential and popular websites (eg, Wikipedia,
579.
by nir 17y ago
If you don't like PHP, you're allowed not to use it.
580.
by nir 17y ago
Fair point - awards like Turing or SIGMOD are different, where both the nominees and voters are high level experts in their fields. What I wrote applies to mainstream awards & lists.
581.
by nir 17y ago
Awards, and "Top n" lists are bullshit by definition. There isn't a "better model". Almost every award in the world is nonsense, from the Nobel Prize (at least Peace & Literature, possibly Economics?) to the Oscars. An award that is vot
582.
Parrot AR.Drone(parrot.com)
15 points by nir 17y ago|2 comments
583.
Daniel Suarez - Daemon: Bot-Mediated Reality(fora.tv)
4 points by nir 17y ago|2 comments
584.
by nir 17y ago
You're right it's a puff peace (the guy interviewed sells security services..) and that some passengers get grilled, but wrong about the race angle: People I know that got the longer question & search treatment include a French Indian w
585.
by nir 17y ago
1. The incident didn't take place in an airport but in an overland border crossing, which hasn't much to do with El Al's security system and thus the article. 2. The official claim was that the laptop was left unattended and mistaken for a
586.
by nir 17y ago
AFAIK, El Al screeners in NYC make about $30k/year. I suppose they might make more if they do more shifts, do holiday shifts etc. Having a few years as a screener on your resume doesn't hurt, but more because it means you've passed a pretty
587.
by nir 17y ago
Airport security is indeed considered a good job in Israel, allowing El Al to pick and choose, but not because it is well paid - they probably don't make more than TSA workers. The key is that the job allows employees to be assigned to a st
588.
by nir 17y ago
I was born in Israel and lived there all my life till 2006. Ironically, it was often the efforts towards peace that escalated violence: The 1992 Oslo Accords were followed by the suicide bus bombings of the 90s, the 2000 Camp David summit r
589.
by nir 17y ago
IMHO it's more about concepts than technologies - eg, MVC based Web frameworks were a good concept to pick up a few years ago, whether you chose Rails or Django or Zend Framework etc, OOP were a good idea to pick up somewhere in the 90s whe
590.
by nir 17y ago
Interesting interview with Bruce Schneier here: http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/bruc... FTA: "A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do
591.
by nir 17y ago
I think we're in agreement. My distinction is: Beautiful vs Nice - taste. Beautiful vs Ugly - not taste. So, since it's obvious this DSL isn't ugly, being less than beautiful doesn't really merit HN's negative response. In any case, the neg
592.
by nir 17y ago
1) As an HN submission, it's certainly better than most. Anything with code in it beats "Startup lessons from J-Lo". 2) Beauty is a matter of taste. It might not be the Bar Rafaeli of languages, but I wouldn't think it's so ugly as to requi
593.
by nir 17y ago
Why are most comments here negative? HAML already shown this technology does have value to a significant amount of people. Someone took the time to write this, seems to have done a pretty nice job and is releasing it for anyone to use. I ca
594.
by nir 17y ago
OK, read RSS as RSS/Atom :) But I wouldn't go as far as saying Winer is the only RSS publisher - HN feed is RSS based, Google News is RSS, NYT uses some RSS/Atom hybrid, Flickr offers both and so on..
595.
by nir 17y ago
RSS is infrastructure. It doesn't die. RSS readers as we know them might go away, but RSS readers are just a way to consume it, probably not even the best one. RSS will likely stick around for quite a while, transparently powering features
596.
by nir 17y ago
"two chicks at the same time, man"
597.
by nir 17y ago
Cool, thanks!
598.
by nir 17y ago
Any chance you'll allow equal sign as well as colon? For all of us coders conditioned by years of programming to automatically use "="... Looks beautiful, in any case.
599.
by nir 17y ago
Sounds like oEmbed might come useful here ( http://www.oembed.com/ ) - you could have an oEmbed link for "my music" in zedshaw.com, and a browser extension (or dedicated app etc) that reads these particular oEmbed URLs.
600.
by nir 17y ago
iUI might be an interesting alternative (if I understand PastryKit correctly), a CSS/JS/HTML/images framework for native-looking iPhone web pages: http://code.google.com/p/iui/ http://iui-js.appspot.com/

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